Blog Entries by Fleur Brading

It has now been reported that Mervyn King, Boris Johnson and a collection of MPs have all made comments that would suggest the UK is uncomfortable with the New York Department of Financial Service's (DFS) attack on Standard Chartered: Boris Johnson has said that the DFS' investigation could serve as...

Thanks to Martin Wolf's timely op-ed in the Financial Times on Friday, I was alerted to a brilliant speech made by Robert Jenkins, an external member of the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England on 10 July 2012. I couldn't recommend it more highly as a reasoned case...

If a newspaper were to report that a bank had been involved in activities that increased profits and, in a time of crisis, somewhat disingenuously gave a favourable impression of its strength, we may roll our eyes and say that we expected little less, but we would most probably not...